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. 2013 Sep 27;6:821–828. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S52209

Figure 2.

Figure 2

A causal structure, incorporating causes of the offered treatment (ℛ), blinding status (B), and the patient’s expectation (E) of the outcome (D).

Notes: TOFFERED denotes the treatment offered; TTAKEN denotes the treatment taken; a lower case letter denotes a value of the modifier (e.g. tOFFERED is a value of TOFFERED).